“Trust in the future in your loneliness”
— G.E. Patterson
regardless of care
we who love/d short
we who desire/d
let ourselves be led
by a thing of distance
of vastness
of there of then of those
this fullness of a door
no longer a beyond
here knocks decided silence
never mind the inspiration
it fades from the window
a house comes down
on itself
Alexandria Pulliam is a poet from Orlando, Florida. She graduated from Jacksonville University with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science with minors in English and Art History and is pursuing an MFA in poetry at Temple University.